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# | [[Image:Pre-Cylon War Vipers.jpg|thumb|Pre-Cylon War-era Vipers in tandem flight formation.]] | ||
The '''Caprican Viper'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> is a [[Caprican Air Force]] aircraft used for atmospheric flight on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in the years prior to the [[Cylon War]]. It follows an earlier [[Vintage Viper|model]] and predates those [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s used by the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)| | |||
Colonial Fleet]] in the first and [[Second Cylon War|second]] Cylon engagements. | |||
A Viper flight simulator featuring these single-pilot fighter jets is available through the [[virtual world]] interface for [[holoband]] users. Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Zoe Graystone]] and her date [[Philomon]] fly atmospheric Vipers over a simulated sea and oil rigs. Unfamiliar with the controls, Zoe accidentally collides with Philomon's fighter, sending both jets crashing into the water ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]". | |||
An even older model of Viper also appears in the virtual world's [[New Cap City]]. Based on a propeller plane and launched from a massive [[Dreadnaught|dirigible]], these vintage Vipers strafe the streets of New Cap City, derezzing users ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]"). | |||
==Notes== | |||
*Like the Marine [[Blackhawk]] [[Wikipedia:VTOL|VTOL aircraft]] seein in "[[End of Line]]" and "[[Apotheosis]]", the Caprican Viper seen in "The Imperfections of Memory" is marked with the pentagonal shape seen on the [[Raider (TOS)|Cylon Raider]] of [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]] and the similar [[Raider (RDM)#Cylon War-era Raider|Cylon War-era Raider]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Re-imagined Series]] and ''[[Blood and Chrome]]''. | |||
*Interior shots of the Viper in "The Imperfections of Memory" feature several cuts to existing footage from episodes of ''Battlestar Galactica'', including one from "[[Razor]]" that features the cockpit and [[DRADIS]] console of the [[Viper Mark II]]. <ref>http://www.syfy.com/_cache/assets/assets/caprica_episode107_commentary.mp3</ref> | |||
*The Caprican Viper appears to be a marriage of components from existing military aircraft like the [[Wikipedia: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet|F-18]] and [[Wikipedia: Grumman F-14 Tomcat|F-14]]. | |||
*On his personal website, VFX modeler [[Pierre Drolet]] describes the Caprican Viper as a "Caprica[n] Air Force fighter jet (not a star fighter)."<ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/viper-air-force</ref> | |||
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